Clover Collins (born 1945), grew up in the suburb of Gordon, on Sydney's North Shore. She attended Loreto Kirribilli at Kirribilli, before going on to study teaching at Sydney University. While at uni ...
List of Chief Ministers # Name Party Term Start Term End Timespan1 Rosemary Follett Labor 11 May 1989 5 December 19891 0 years, 208 days2 Trevor Kaine Liberal 5 December 1989 6 June 19912 1 year, 183 ...
The child of court reporter, Aubrey Follett, an Anglican and his wife, Judith, a Roman Catholic from an intellectual family, Follett was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1948, and moved with her fam ...
Until 1956 all members of the ministry were members of the Cabinet. The growth of the ministry in the 1940s and 1950s made this increasingly impractical, and in 1956 Liberal Prime Minister Robert Menz ...
A referendum on women's suffrage was held on 1 February 1959. The majority of Switzerland's men voted against it, but in some cantons women obtained the vote. The first Swiss woman to hold political o ...
In ancient Athenian democracy, often cited as the birthplace of democracy, only men were permitted to vote. Through subsequent centuries, Europe was generally ruled by monarchs, though various forms o ...
Reginald Myles Ansett was born at Inglewood, Victoria, on 13 February 1909. His father owned a garage before World War I when he enlisted in the AIF. After the war, his father established a knitting f ...
Melbourne's tram system operates on 600 volt DC electricity, provided to the over head lines by a network of 50 substations spread across the network. Electricity is supplied to these substations in e ...
A1 – 28 built, made in Australia, 27 still in serviceA2 – 42 built, made in Australia, all still in serviceThe A-class trams were built between 1984 and 1986 by Comeng. They were built as two runs, ...
Melbourne's first tram was a horse tram from Fairfield railway station to a real estate development in Thornbury, it opened on 20 December 1884, and was closed by 1890. Seven horse trams operated in M ...
The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration is a defunct Australian court, which had jurisdiction to arbitrate interstate industrial disputes.The court was created in 1904 by the Conciliati ...
Former German Schutzgebiete All these territories previously were League of Nations mandates.The Trust Territory of the Cameroons under French administration (French Cameroons): Achieved independence ...
Sport is an important part of Papua New Guinean culture and rugby league is by far the most popular sport. In a nation where communities are far apart and many people live at a minimal subsistence lev ...
Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world. There are hundreds of ethnic groups indigenous to Papua New Guinea, the majority being from the group known as Papuans, whose an ...
Main article: History of Papua New GuineaHumans first arrived in Papua New Guinea around 42,000 – 45,000 years BP.Kerepunu villagers, British New Guinea, 1885.Lime Container, late 19th or early 20th ...
